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[EVO 4G General] werkem:
Battery Drain Question:

I am running nightly #13

Savage Zen Kernal

Lately when using System panel I noticed that my battery drains like crazy when my phone is idle and the screen is off

It is saying that the process "system" is constantly running at about ~10% cpu activity.

Overnight I tested it by not touching my phone from 8pm until 8am this morning and it went from 80% to dead

Does anything know if this is fixed in the latest pushes or what this could be ?

trying to get the best out of the battery life i can
[EVO 4G General] brofist:
I'll just say this right here and now:

There is a bug in how wifi tethering dithers out connectivity. Some speeds get heavily capped, and there have been threads about this issue done by the teamwin explosive testing senior officer Dees_Troy.

timtlm has quoted you and cited the links. Maybe you should read through them.

(also, speed tests are for chumps wanting self validation; I've never done a speedtest that was representative of the service I was getting. Plenty of ISPs will purposely uncap connections to speedtest servers to intentionally boost the ratings they get.)

We'll need more information about your current setup, more specifically, if you are using any of the statusbar tweaks.

(!)You can't trust any advice we give you with any certainty though, seeing as how you are running a different kernel. Its like going to the horse races and asking on which stocks to invest in.

A change or different experience could very well just be chalked up to us running stock or even a different niche kernel, so take our word with a grain of salt and an ounce of experimentation (and always make sure to NAND if you plan on nightly plunges for the sake of battery!).
[EVO 4G General] werkem:
bone stock cm7, no statusbar tweaks or any other performance tweaks. I think I might just flash to the latest nightly and see if that fixes this issue
[EVO 4G General] Rippley05:
Have you checked spare parts? It sounds like a possible wakelock of some sort.
[EVO 4G General] My1es:
I've dropped off the nightlies since RC2. Can anyone tell me if 4g tethering with the built in hotspot is working on the latest nightly. Or what nightly they had the best results with 4G tethering?

Thanks ahead.
[EVO 4G General] mintee:
Why don't you guys start your own thread already... 8 pages of this crap is BS!
[EVO 4G General] whitehorse84:
looking to make the jump from a nightly to RC2.. what ISNT working in this one? I'm trying to skim through the pages here to find out but to no luck.
[EVO 4G General] N_Jones:
How about you just stop talking. Because my evo works just fine tethered to my laptop. You are holding it wrong.
[EVO 4G General] brofist:
oh no someone talking about cyanogen in the cyanogen general

Its a sad state to see someone genuinely upset about determining the status of WORKING FOHR GEEZ TETHER? in nightlyfourgeeez?!? threads.

We could always just make a NO FUN ALLOWED thread for cyanogen7 regulars who want all the fun of a thread without any of the posts of a thread.
[EVO 4G General] thedarksavant:
What's sad yet mildly entertaining is all those arguing shades of gray with someone who only sees things in black and white. Like the sphere in Flatland trying to explain to all the lines and circles and squares the concept of up.
[EVO 4G General] p-slim:
Are there different shades. Either you can wirelessly tether faster then 3mbps or you can't. Anybody making it more complicated then that is there fault. If you do a linespeed test on speedtest.net app on your evo while in 4G coverage then you tether to an iPad or iPhone and download the same app, the iPad and iPhone will only receive 3G speeds from your evo. Yes in this situation its black and white. Im not asking for a fix because it the same way on sense rom and the epic 4G, just pointing out the facts. Even the android wireless tether dev says its not possible now some of you are saying he's wrong about his own app. Now as you go about your day some of you will try this, I don't expect you to post back, just know I'm laughing in my head because I already know the results.
[EVO 4G General] p-slim:
if you're on your laptop do a line speed test. You don't need to post your results as I already know its less then 2.5 mbps
[EVO 4G General] N_Jones:
Not that you'll believe me but I am writing this tethered to my EVO getting 4g speeds. I just checked it with speedtest.net and got 3.04 mbps down and .95 mbps up. This morning I got 7 mbps down and 1 up but it is lunch time and this is really pointless because your right I can't possibly be getting "4g" speeds. I can do the same on a sense rom with the wireless tether app from the market. But never-the-less I should have stuck to my usual forum rules which is read only and not try and debate with an internet expert......

Good day.....

edit: just because I can
[EVO 4G General] p-slim:
How can you do this with the wireless tether app when even the dev says you can't. You're lying man
[EVO 4G General] DoctorComrade:
Running nightly 6 right now and the gps for navigation doesn't update as much as google maps. Like if im getting navigation directions it is always searching for the gps but in google maps it find it right away. This problem might have been fixed within your updates but I just thought I'd let you guys know.

Sent from my Evo powered by moar gees.
[EVO 4G General] DoctorComrade:
Pics Or it didn't happen

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[EVO 4G General] DoctorComrade:
:O

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[EVO 4G General] p-slim:
since you want to lie now im actually going to put in work and post about 10 sites that say you're lying.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=993371&highlight=tether+speeds

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=800530&highlight=tether+speeds

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10125700&postcount=6

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=783368&highlight=tether+speeds

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=735439&highlight=tether+speeds

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/htc-evo-4...when-using-wireless-tether-app-my-laptop.html

http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/issues/detail?id=510

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/htc-evo-4...when-using-wireless-tether-app-my-laptop.html

you're line speed test only prove you have the wireless hotspot on your account or something else. like i said you can wire tether then have you laptop give off a wireless signal but it isn't possible as you can see with all the threads i posted
[EVO 4G General] ageesm:
At first we misunderstood your poorly worded argument, then we figured out what you meant and agreed to disagree, or so we thought. Now you have just turned into a troll calling everyone a liar.

Now you have a picture proving otherwise and you still will not believe him. Like I have said since the beginning it fluctuates. First you wanted '4G' speeds proven. Now you say it has to be over 3mpbs then you said 2.5...why are you creating some arbitrary number? 2.5-3 whether you like it or not is 4G speeds, are they fast 4G speeds? Absolutely not, but it is SILL 4G, we have all agreed there is a speed drop and everyone is aware of that.

You aren't proving that it isn't possible, you are only proving that there are issues, which we have all conceded multiple times...
[EVO 4G General] p-slim:
this doesn't even show you're wireless. as i've stated wired 4g connection speeds are possible
[EVO 4G General] N_Jones:
p-slim........ last post and I'm done. You lose since you have stooped to name calling and it is obvious that you will not be swayed from your stance. So be it, I will continue to utilize the equipment I have at speeds that work for me. I sir am not a liar.
[EVO 4G General] p-slim:
i state 3mbps because 3 mbps is possible on 3g. 4mbps isn't possible on 3g so if you're tethering faster then 3mbps then you're obviously tethering 4g speeds. some people get 2.5 mbps on 3g regularly so obviously when they tether they will tether 2.5mpbs easily
[EVO 4G General] EyeslikeOlives:
Not sure if it's just me, but I'm sure there are others with this problem (maybe it's the entire CM7 nightly users experiencing this), but I get random reboots that lead to a couple more reboots once it loads to the lockscreen until it finally just stops and lets me use my phone again. Either that or it tends to get really hot when playing a game... then reboots.

Of course, if I was still regularly checking up on this thread I would have problem read a fix for it somewhere, if there was one, but I have not been able to keep posted.

Can anyone explain if this is just natural since I'm on the nightlies or should I just go **** myself?
[EVO 4G General] david279:
What kernel are you using?
[EVO 4G General] ageesm:
You picked a completely arbitrary number. It isn't about what is possible on 3G, it is about what your average 3G speed is in your area compared to what you get on 4G, if the 4G tethered speed is clearly higher than said average 3G speed, your point makes no sense. Apparently no one read my post from last night saying all we are arguing about is how much the speed is decreased by tethering with 4G (once we discerned what your actual argument was). We will not change your mind, fine...move on.
[EVO 4G General] dirkyd3rk:
Not a single reboot for me since first few cm7 nightlies. (Can you answer a few questions) What kernel are you using? Do you have setcpu installed and set it boot certain speeds? Try flashing the latest nightly over your current one. Try pulling the battery then wipe dalvik-cache. Just a few suggestions for you hope you get it going.
[EVO 4G General] tiato:
fast enough?

Would it be nice if we can get speed like this on our phones?

Sorry. Can't insert images or links yet so attachment will have to do.
[EVO 4G General] EyeslikeOlives:
Stock kernal. I've been wanting to try another third party kernal, but I've been out of touch here (just flashing nightlies) so I'm not sure what to choose.
[EVO 4G General] timothydoanpham:
i wouldn't know what to do with my phone if it could achieve those speeds. LOL.
[EVO 4G General] p-slim:
How is 3mbps an arbitrary number when sprint states that on their website. Like someone stated evo is capable of 22mbps wirelessly but no one can wireless tether faster then 3 which randomly happens to be the fastest sprint 3g possible

http://shop2.sprint.com/en/coverage/support/mobile_broadband_network_popup.shtml
[EVO 4G General] kevinsalterego:
21 is the first nightly that seems to have completely fixed my GPS. With 19, as long as I kept it on, it would continue to lock. With 21, I can toggle on/off and it will still work like a champ!

The file transfer speeds from my PC to SD card are better than with any previous nightly, but still pretty slow. 21 = 1.15mb/s whereas 19 and below were 500-600kb/s. Sense roms and CM6 give me 5+mb/s.

Finally a daily driver for me!
[EVO 4G General] EyeslikeOlives:
Stock kernal since the start of CM7. Used to keep up with everything when 6 was out, but days have been getting busy so now I'm just flashing nightlies and randomly coming on to see what people are saying. I'm going to flash 21 as we speak and wipe. Thanks for the suggestions :) Hopefully this helps.
[EVO 4G General] dirkyd3rk:
I would recommend a fresh wipe/start man along with the newest universal gapps.
[EVO 4G General] ageesm:
People can tether faster than 3, that is what the entire argument is about, but no one is going to change your mind, fine. Other people do it, let them, you can't, too bad.

The point is it doesn't matter what the highest limit is, it is about averages and it fluctuates so much depending on a myriad of factors; putting any static number on it is completely arbitrary. If you average somewhere around 1mpbs on 3G in your area and your 4G tethered speed is 3mpbs you are tethering with 4G speeds, they aren't full utilizing the bandwidth, but that is not the point, we all agree most people see a speed drop...You will not see another response from me on the matter, I promise ;).
[EVO 4G General] strung:
another GPS fix went in nightly 21, looks like
[EVO 4G General] DoctorComrade:
Thanks. Ill check it out when my battery percentage is more than 60%, currently at the hospital but I have a long drive home so hopefully by that time I can flash it! :D

Sent from my Evo powered by moar gees.
[EVO 4G General] davenukem:
I love how nobody has any input on the wimax disconnect bug....... who gives a **** about tethering speeds if once wimax drops it won't reconnect until reboot?
[EVO 4G General] ageesm:
Because it is a known issue that is being worked on, there is a command to save you from rebooting, but there is no fix as of yet, just that workaround :(.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11785445&postcount=14167
[EVO 4G General] 12MaNy:
Yeah, enough about the tethering BS. Go start a 4g tethering debate thread and quit cluttering up this thread.
[EVO 4G General] lost_man10002:
This has been talked to death allready...its a bug that has been reported to CM allready and is being worked on be patient my friend...its a nighty there are going to be bugs if you can't deal with that then wait for the final version
[EVO 4G General] N_Jones:
Agreed but you can get it to reconnect without a reboot by going in to Terminal Emulator typing SU enter then killall dhcpcd enter. Exit terminal emulator and it will re-connect.

I do hope they get that fixed at some point......

Oh and just to be a prick...... :)
[EVO 4G General] p-slim:
I get those speeds with my wired tethering also on sprint service, what does this pic prove? Using easy tether. I would post screen shots but I don't think anyone is arguing that but just to make you happy I will post my sprint wired tethering speeds also except mine will show 7-9 mbps not a measly 4mbps
[EVO 4G General] wrapkgb:
P-slim, for the love of God STFU. SERIOUSLY. Go troll elsewhere, the CM thread does not need your garbage man.
[EVO 4G General] N_Jones:
Alright I'll bite..... what would you like to see?

edit:

You know what never mind..... You really are just a troll and shame on me for falling for it..... Sorry for cluttering up this tread. My bad. :(
[EVO 4G General] sjwaste:
THANKS!

I've been searching the thread up and down for this. I knew it had something to do with dhcpcd, so I've been kill -9'ing it. And that does NOT work.

I'm going to add to the FAQ Wiki.
[EVO 4G General] brofist:
Every contribution counts.

Thanks (+ thanks'd)
[EVO 4G General] p-slim:
yes call me a troll because i've proved you wrong here and now im getting the same speeds you are and im proving you're a liar once again with my speedtest link. doesn't mine say sprintpcs. so for everyone's sake im going to let this go but yes call me a troll for proving tethering wireless 4g speeds isn't possible. the only way to tether 4g speeds is wired. then everybody here one day will have a need to wireless tether in a 4g area and will be surprised they are only getting about 1-2mbps (because thats the average 3g speeds) who will be the troll then?

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1205264996.png
[EVO 4G General] nebenezer:
l..m..a..o

I haven't had any reboots on cm7 either, not even overclocked (I've only used CM settings to oc)

[non-technical opinion]

Sounds like you have a runaway app. Or it's just a fluke.

Wipe caches and reboot, if that doesn't fix it then flash calk's format zip and reflash.

[/non-technical opinion]
[EVO 4G General] grkfire:
Awhile back I posted that my 4g wouldn't connect..(it would connect and drop immediately)...I tried to enable it, via the widgets, and even via the settings, wireless connections, etc....and no dice, even with this latest nightly.

After throwing in the towel (since the start of RC2), I remembered I had SwitchPro widget installed and decided to enable 4G through it. And lo & behold, my 4G connects now! I'm thinking that all along it was SwitchPro 4G widget that was disabled from the get go, since RC1 when 4g was working for me... (I kept restoring via titanium backup)

I feel like such an idiot and not thinking about this before, but I felt like throwing this out there for others who are in my situation to try out & see if it would work for them.
[EVO 4G General] N_Jones:
I wish I could let this go but I can't. At this point I am certain the reasoning here is that because you can't wirelessly tether at 4g speeds no can. But just one more parting screen shot. For the record...
[EVO 4G General] timtlm:
DUDE! I don't know how many times I have to point this out, but it is obvious you never read my post. The fact is that it is possible to get 4g speeds using wireless tether. Personally I get capped speeds on my laptop, but it has been proven that some laptops/devices do get 4g speeds uncapped, and there is no evident reason why. Also, if you set up a proxy on your phone you CAN get uncapped wifi tether 4g speeds. So, if you want to go to the effort it CAN be done.

SEE MY POST HERE: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=12139948&postcount=15817
[EVO 4G General] p-slim:
Dude this is one of my points also, I said there might be a Jimmy rig but to just download wireless tether app and install and then say you're getting 4G speeds is a lie or just downloading cm and opening up native wireless tethering and expecting 4G speeds, this wont happen. Sense rom or cm but like I said I'm done arguing with you guys. Honestly I saw that thread the day it was posted and that didn't work either but I don't even want to get into that
[EVO 4G General] david279:
..now that should end all this.
[EVO 4G General] p-slim:
My screenshot isn't working on my computer but I took a pic with the evo and posted it. Why does mine look exactly like his. See his screenshot means nothing, just show me some threads where more then one person has it working, that's all I ask
[EVO 4G General] wrapkgb:
Haha this is hilarious! P slim again stfu. Its over.
[EVO 4G General] p-slim:
It was over when I posted 8 threads with about 50 people stating its not working and 3 people in this thread confirmed there not getting 4g speeds now 1 Guy says it works for him, lmfao. You sound foolish
[EVO 4G General] SolsticeZero:
Sorry, dude, but you're sounding plenty foolish yourself. What you should have done is say "You've gotten it working? That's great! My bad!" pages ago. But no, you want to just beat that horses corpse, don't you?
[EVO 4G General] p-slim:
You're kind of right except pages ago I did say there may be some Jimmy rig but to just say download and install is not happening. I'm sorry if that's not the same thing. I even remember one post last night me talking about opening a thread and you will get many thanks and probably even donations
[EVO 4G General] fiddy619:
There have been sooooo many updates specific to gps since then it would be rediculous not to update, and 21 is freakin solid...

BTW those of you on the earlier nightlys will get much better battery life, as much as double, especially if you are using 13 or 14 (at least in my experience).

Sent from my CeEvO
[EVO 4G General] CheesyNutz:
i wish the mods would ban the fools for having a e-penis fight and clogging up the thread

on a side note flashed build 21 everything works ! no gps work around needed
[EVO 4G General] unit713:
4-5 pages of e-fighting over 4G-tethering? You guys are such nerds
[EVO 4G General] Land Master:
One time....At band camp....
[EVO 4G General] Redneck Trash:
I still have the GPS issue on N21. Haven't tried wireless tethering yet.
[EVO 4G General] Beejis:
Mine is PLENTY bigger then yours.

Pocket posted...
[EVO 4G General] Land Master:
Yeah but his has Cheesy Nuts...

Ok... I will stop now, I promise.
[EVO 4G General] ageesm:
I am assuming you are speaking of the issue where you can't turn off GPS or you need to reboot to get it back (which the commit was supposed to specifically address)? Mine is working just fine. I turned on GPS, it locked quite quickly. I turned it off, waited a few minutes, then when turned it back on, I got a lock almost immediately.
[EVO 4G General] Redneck Trash:
GPS turns on but doesn't lock to my location. Always been like that for me with CM7 nightlies.
[EVO 4G General] fiddy619:
I think you got your notes backwards... Flashing 21 and all is working is definitely the key point here... lol

Sent from my CeEvO
[EVO 4G General] NewZJ:
I tether wirelessly at 4g speeds, had to keep stock kernel to do it but I did,

my gps breaks when I flash a sense rom but if I run the fix and then stay on cm7 builds it will work great through multiple nightlies

can we talk about cm7 now?

how bout a rc3 maybe? pwease?
[EVO 4G General] ageesm:
Well that is the normal GPS issue. To my knowledge there has been little progress on that front...With the Sense fix and this newest commit, GPS seems to back to what it was :).
[EVO 4G General] fiddy619:
You might wanna just download gps status from the market and see if you can get a lock with that app, if you can then just select menu, tools, manage a-gps, reset, reboot your phone with gps still on, once your phone comes back on start gps status back up, and again back to tools after you get a lock, then manage a-gps, and select download, its advised to reboot again at this point, but its been my experience that it is really optional, and I usually just wait until I have to reboot for something else.

Sent from my CeEvO
[EVO 4G General] bullshark_the_real:
Anyone having slow wake-up issues? I press the unlock button and sometimes it can take 30 seconds to a minute for the screen to come on..Strange.. I disabled my SetCPU profiles, restarted, cleared cache.
[EVO 4G General] tyzannosaurus:
Wimax

Hey guys I'm honestly not trying to fan the flames (or am I lol?), but I got help in the RC2 thread because my Wimax was stuck on scanning. Anyway, this thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=726726

fixed it and I was able to use Wifi tethering with 4G at over 3Mb. I know that's no 6 Mb, but it was the first time I used it and in a windowless school classroom (solid cinder blocks all around) I dunno how long that fight has been going, but for those honestly curious I used straight out of the box cm7 wifi tether and got faster than 3g speeds.
[EVO 4G General] halorin:
I think I need to do the GPS fix on an HTC rom, but 21 is a BEAST!
[EVO 4G General] M4ver1ck:
Running CM7 Nightly 21 with Savaged Zen BFS 0.2.1. Friggin, smooth. Noticeably smoother when i switched from nightly 19. Savaged Zen kernel 0.2.1 supposed to have HDMI mirroring, but I haven't got it to work, though some people have.
[EVO 4G General] xpanmanx:
Thank you!!!
[EVO 4G General] jcrabapple:
This worked perfectly for me! Thanks. GPS locks on in about 5-10 seconds even indoors.
[EVO 4G General] r0cky0790:
I use the tethering feature that's built in. It works flawlessly for me even with 4g. So you should give it a go.

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[EVO 4G General] r0cky0790:
That's not good to state false information. If something doesn't work for you that doesn't mean everyone else gets the same results. Someone told me a while back in this same thread to be exact that this person was tethering using 4g on cm. Thats what drove me to get the wifi xbox. 4g tethering works perfectly. Here's the proof in the pudding

http://db.tt/5KTKdzf

http://db.tt/HleLZbq

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[EVO 4G General] sitlet:
Is there a link to any other themes available for cm7 rc2? I like the cyan theme in the theme chooser, but I would like the blue to be a little bit darker blue.
[EVO 4G General] IzzyIsaac:
I can confirm that I too can also tether my 4G using the stock tethering...
[EVO 4G General] Vandelay007:
Noticed my screen would not turn out immediately on 21....I would have to shut it off and turn it back on.....nand'd back to 18...
[EVO 4G General] Vandelay007:
Yeah...I had that too....I just posted ^^ about it then saw your post....
[EVO 4G General] goten75:
I've had that slow to come up (that's what she said) problem in the past too. I just turn on the screen on animation and it stops it for me.
[EVO 4G General] Vandelay007:
Thanks...I will try that next time....I already flashed back without backing up 21..